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Changes for version 0.45 - 2008-09-08

  • -Patch from Milosz Tanski <mtanski@gridapp.com> to make module thread-safe on linux (rt.cpan.org ID 38709). Patch from Scott Davis <darkpreludesi@hotmail.com> for new constructor flag enable_ttys, which when set to 0 disables traversing the device tree.

Modules

Kill all instances of a process by pattern matching the command-line
kill a list of pids, and all their sub-children
Perl process objects
Perl extension to access the unix process table

Examples